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[Link] Corporations Won’t Pay $15 an Hour Unless They’re Forced To
Read: 19/4/2022 www.vice.com
The vast majority of big food and retail corporations in the United States aren’t paying anywhere near a $15 an hour minimum wage, according to a new report from Harvard researchers and the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
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[Link] Joe Manchin Wants to Let Companies Keep Polluting in Private, Thanks
Read: 5/4/2022 www.vice.com
Should companies have to explain their role in causing climate change? There’s a simple answer, according to Sen. Joe Manchin: Hell no.
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[Link] State Senator Rants About Furries Using Litter Boxes in School, Then Apologizes
Read: 3/4/2022 www.vice.com
“I’m a little shocked, I guess... It’s something called furries,” he said.
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[Link] Jared Kushner ‘voluntarily’ gives Capitol attack panel information in testimony
Read: 3/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
Jared Kushner testified Thursday before the House select committee investigating the 6 January attack on the Capitol, becoming the first member of Donald Trump’s family to speak to investigators.
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[Link] Looks Like Ron DeSantis Is Getting His Election Police Force
Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ grand plan for an election police force has been widely panned as an absolutely terrible idea in practice by experts nationally.
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[Link] GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn Called President Zelenskyy a ‘Thug’
Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com
A leaked video shows GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “thug” while speaking to supporters about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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[Link] Senator forced to backtrack after saying Republicans will repeal Obamacare
Read: 9/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
The Wisconsin senator Ron Johnson said Republicans should try again to repeal the Affordable Care Act if they take back power – then retreated, under fire from the Biden administration.
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[Link] Warren, Sanders Demand Investigation into Amazon’s Attendance Policy
Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com
Senators Cory Booker and Richard Blumenthal and Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Cori Bush also wrote the letter.
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[Link] Ethereum Companies Suddenly Ban Users In Certain Countries
Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com
MetaMask is the most popular crypto wallet for Ethereum users, including NFT traders. It is owned by the same parent company as Infura, which is a centralized API that feeds MetaMask data from the Ethereum blockchain.
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[Link] Peter Thiel Is Stepping Down From Facebook to Go Full MAGA
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel is stepping down from the board of Meta, Facebook’s parent company said Monday.
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[Link] Supreme Court Says Racial Gerrymandering Is No Big Deal
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
The Supreme Court just undercut Black voters’ power in Alabama—and signaled that it’s likely to further gut the Voting Rights Act. This ruling isn’t specifically on the merits of whether the map violated the Voting Rights Act or not—that’ll come later.
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[Link] IRS to Stop Use of Facial Recognition Tech After Widespread Backlash
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
The IRS said on Monday it will stop the use of ID.me, an identification verification service that uses facial recognition technology. Lawmakers had raised concerns with the service over the last week, with multiple members of Congress and Senators urging the IRS to stop the deployment of ID.me.
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[Link] The Right Is Losing Its Mind at the Idea of a Black Woman on the Supreme Court
Read: 27/1/2022 www.vice.com
The retirement of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has paved the way for President Joe Biden to fulfill a campaign promise to be the first to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court.
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[Link] ‘People Need to Know She Sucks’: Kyrsten Sinema’s Volunteers, Ex-Staff Are Fed Up
Read: 23/1/2022 www.vice.com
When Maria-Elena Dunn first met Kyrsten Sinema, she said she was elated.
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[Link] ‘The walls are closing in’: Trump reels from week of political setbacks
Read: 23/1/2022 www.theguardian.com
The last time Donald Trump heard such hammer blows, they were from renovations at Mar-a-Lago that displeased the former president. But not even that sound would have left his ears ringing like last week’s avalanche of bad news that some believe nudged a criminal indictment one step closer.
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[Link] Matt Gaetz’s Ex-Girlfriend Got Immunity in Sex Trafficking Probe: Report
Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com
The former girlfriend of Rep. Matt Gaetz testified in a federal sex trafficking probe involving the congressman last week and, according to CBS News, she received immunity before doing so.
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[Link] ‘It Has Gone Too Far’: Don Jr. Begged His Dad to Stop the Jan. 6 Rioters
Read: 14/12/2021 www.vice.com
As the Capitol riot was unfolding, some of the biggest names in the conservative movement were working their connections in the White House to get former President Donald Trump to do something—anything—to stop it.
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[Link] AOC Says She Doesn't Own Bitcoin to Do Her Job 'Ethically'
Read: 8/12/2021 www.vice.com
On Monday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez clarified on Instagram that she does not hold any digital assets or tokens, including Bitcoin, and said she doesn’t believe policymakers should be able to hold financial products like stocks.
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[Link] Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Jailed Jan. 6 Defendants Abused ‘Because of the Color of Their Skin’
Read: 8/12/2021 www.vice.com
Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed that the people behind bars for their alleged role in the Jan.
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[Link] Republican Tweets Grossest Christmas Card of All Time
Read: 6/12/2021 www.vice.com
On Saturday, the Kentucky Republican tweeted a photo of himself and his family all holding firearms with the message, “Merry Christmas! ps. Santa, please bring ammo.”
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[Link] Trump attacks media and Mark Milley in foul-mouthed Mar-a-Lago speech
Read: 6/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
In remarks to diners at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Saturday night, Donald Trump called the American media “crooked bastards” and Gen Mark Milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, a “fucking idiot”.
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[Link] Trump social media company claims to raise $1bn from investors
Read: 5/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
Donald Trump’s new social media company and its special purpose acquisition company partner said on Saturday the partner had agreements for $1bn in capital from institutional investors. The former president launched Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) in October.
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[Link] Trump voices old grievances in freewheeling interview with Farage
Read: 2/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
Donald Trump attacked Boris Johnson’s plans for clean power, slammed the Duchess of Sussex as “disrespectful”, and voiced a litany of old grievances during a freewheeling interview with UK politician-turned-broadcaster Nigel Farage aired on British TV on Wednesday night.
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[Link] Trump Knew He Tested Positive For COVID-19 Before Debating Biden
Read: 1/12/2021 www.vice.com
Then-President Donald Trump tested positive for COVID-19 three days before debating Joe Biden and almost a week before he publicly admitted he had the virus, Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows reportedly revealed in his new book. Trump reportedly tested positive on Sept.
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[Link] Trump’s ‘fact-free’ approach caused briefing challenges, CIA report says
Read: 30/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Donald Trump’s “fact-free” approach to the presidency created unprecedented challenges for intelligence officials responsible for briefing him, according to a newly released account from the CIA.
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[Link] Ilhan Omar: Lauren Boebert’s ‘Jihad Squad’ bigotry is ‘no laughing matter’
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Islamophobic remarks by Lauren Boebert are “no laughing matter”, Ilhan Omar said, demanding action from congressional leaders – after the Colorado Republican said sorry. Boebert made the remarks in her home district.
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[Link] While Americans mark Thanksgiving, Republicans panned over Harris attack
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
An attack on Kamala Harris for buying expensive French cookware rebounded on the Republican party over Thanksgiving, moving social media users to compare the vice-president’s culinary outlay with the cost to taxpayers of Donald Trump’s four years in power.
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[Link] Lara Trump claims pricier turkeys are a liberal plot against Thanksgiving
Read: 27/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Lara Trump, the Fox News contributor and wife of Eric Trump, has bizarrely claimed that the rising cost of the Thanksgiving turkey is part of a liberal plot to “chip away” at American traditions.
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[Link] Kyle Rittenhouse Has Set Off a QAnon Civil War
Read: 25/11/2021 www.vice.com
Wood, who said on Thursday that his children would once again not be spending Thanksgiving with him, has spent the last three days in an increasingly toxic battle on the encrypted messaging app where Wood has blasted his critics and praised his defenders.
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[Link] Republicans’ vilification of Trump critics is ‘ruining’ the US, says governor
Read: 22/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Republican party’s vilification of members of Congress who have criticized Donald Trump or supported bipartisan legislation is “ruining America”, New Hampshire’s governor, Chris Sununu, said on Sunday, adding another tacit voice to the small but growing internal opposition to the former
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[Link] Lauren Boebert Went Full Racist Conspiracy Theory Against Ilhan Omar
Read: 18/11/2021 www.vice.com
Rep. Lauren Boebert used the censure of her fellow right-wing colleague to throw a best-of list of unproven Republican personal attacks at prominent House Democrats—including one of the most prominent progressives in Congress, Rep. Ilhan Omar.
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[Link] School Removes Student Project About Fascism After Cops Complain
Read: 18/11/2021 www.vice.com
Students at an Indiana high school are on their third day of virtual learning because they protested the school’s decision to remove a class project about ‘V for Vendetta’ which addressed police brutality.
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[Link] QAnon Leader Ron Watkins Is Running for Congress and It’s Not Going Great
Read: 18/11/2021 www.vice.com
When Ron Watkins, the QAnon facilitator-turned-MAGA influencer, announced he was running for Congress in Arizona last month, he told VICE News he was pretty confident about his chances.
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[Link] Mnuchin and Pompeo Discussed Ousting Trump After Jan. 6, Book Says
Read: 17/11/2021 www.vice.com
Two of the Cabinet members closest to former President Donald Trump had multiple conversations about whether to remove him from office using the 25th Amendment, according to a new book released Tuesday.
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[Link] Marjorie Taylor Greene Has Racked Up More Than $63K in Mask Fines
Read: 17/11/2021 www.vice.com
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s refusal to wear a mask in violation of House rules has cost her more than $63,000 and counting, she said Tuesday—meaning more than a third of her congressional salary has been deducted so far this year due to masking fines.
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[Link] Maryland Mayor Accused of Posting Revenge Porn to r/needysluts Reddit Forum
Read: 15/11/2021 www.vice.com
The mayor of a Maryland city was just charged with 50 counts of distributing revenge porn after he allegedly posted sexually explicit photos of a woman to Reddit while in office, according to a charging document released Monday.
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[Link] Michael Flynn Wants to Outlaw All Religions Except Christianity Now
Read: 15/11/2021 www.vice.com
Disgraced former national security adviser Michael Flynn claimed this weekend that if the U.S. wants to be one nation under God, then it needs to outlaw all religions aside from Christianity.
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[Link] Stephen Colbert Is Tickled by a Judge’s Takedown of Trump
Read: 15/11/2021 www.nytimes.com
Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now. “Now Trump’s legal team is going to have to figure out what to obstruct next.
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[Link] Can Reaganism Rise Again?
Read: 15/11/2021 www.nytimes.com
For a long time, longer than I’ve held this job, my advice to Republican politicians and policymakers has been consistent: It isn’t the 1970s or 1980s anymore.
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[Link] Democrats Are Getting Crushed in the ‘Vibes War’
Read: 14/11/2021 www.theatlantic.com
To explain the Democrats’ poor performance in state and local elections Tuesday, various commentators have made very specific claims: It was mostly about critical race theory, or mostly about Terry McAuliffe’s flaws as a candidate for Virginia governor, or mostly about suburban white women votin
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[Link] Infrastructure Bill's Drunk Driving Tech Mandate Leaves Some Privacy Advocates Nervous
Read: 14/11/2021 gizmodo.com
The recently passed $1 trillion infrastructure package is jam-packed with initiatives but sprinkled in there amid alongside $17 billion in funding for road safety programs is a mandate requiring carmakers to implement monitoring systems to identify and stop drunk drivers.
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[Link] GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Suspended from Twitter after Posting Bounty on a Critic
Read: 14/11/2021 itsgoingdown.org
A failed candidate for governor of California was suspended from Twitter for making “violent threats” after posting a $2,500 bounty; specifically asking for the name and address of a critic from Twitter.
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[Link] Paul Gosar’s Violent Anime Video of AOC Could Get Him in Real Trouble
Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com
Rep. Paul Gosar’s staff-made anime video, which shows his character killing a congresswoman and attacking President Joe Biden, could earn him a rare censure from his colleagues.
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[Link] Now the GOP Is Coming for John Deere Workers
Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com
So much for the party of workers. Approximately 10,000 workers at John Deere facilities in five states went on strike in mid-October, the majority of them in Iowa.
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[Link] Trump Just Endorsed Militia-Backed Candidate Against Idaho’s GOP Governor
Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com
Former President Donald Trump endorsed Idaho Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin on Tuesday night in a long-running battle with Idaho Republican Gov. Brad Little, calling her “a true supporter of MAGA since the very beginning” in his latest move to put aggressively pro-Trump allies in charge of the GOP.
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[Link] Ted Cruz Doesn’t Think Texas Should Secede—Yet
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is “not ready to give up on America yet,” but he might support a Texas secession eventually if the party elected to run the federal government were to “fundamentally destroy the country” by enacting progressive proposals.
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[Link] North Dakota Republican forced to skip anti-vaccination rally after getting Covid
Read: 8/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
A North Dakota Republican who organized a rally to oppose Covid-19 vaccine mandates said he would not attend the event – because he was infected with Covid-19.
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[Link] Big Telecom Is Mad Because New FCC Appointment Gigi Sohn Actually Defends Broadband Consumers
Read: 8/11/2021 www.techdirt.com
So after the longest (and completely unexplained) delay in FCC and NTIA history, last week the Biden administration finally got around to fully staffing the nation's top telecom regulator.
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[Link] The plan to tighten Australia’s voter ID laws is just a clumsy uptake of US culture wars
Read: 7/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
It resembles many initiatives of the Morrison government, and most of the ideas which have emerged from Australian conservatism more broadly in the past decade or more, in that it is opportunistic, unoriginal, and so unnecessary as to be baffling.
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[Link] NRA Shell Companies Funneled Up to $35 Million to GOP Candidates, Lawsuit Says
Read: 7/11/2021 www.vice.com
The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center and Giffords, the gun safety advocacy group started by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband Sen. Mark Kelly, filed the federal lawsuit on Tuesday in D.C.
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[Link] California town declares itself a ‘constitutional republic’ to buck Covid rules
Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
A northern California town has declared itself a “constitutional republic” in response to Covid-19 health restrictions imposed by the governor, in the latest sign of ongoing strife between the state’s government and its rural and conservative regions.
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[Link] House Democrats Back Off Targeting Billionaire Tax Schemes and Swap in New Nicotine Levy
Read: 6/11/2021 theintercept.com
A new version of the Build Back Better Act that the House Rules Committee released Wednesday was amended to protect tax avoidance schemes used by the ultrawealthy in their estate planning.
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[Link] Marjorie Taylor Greene Is 1 Twitter Violation Away From a Permanent Ban
Read: 4/11/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Twitter account has been suspended for a week for posting COVID-19 misinformation, and the Georgia congresswoman is just one more violation away from a permanent ban.
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[Link] New York City Taxi Drivers Win Debt Deal After 15-Day Hunger Strike
Read: 4/11/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
The New York Taxi Workers Alliance has declared victory in its struggle with the city government that had made millions artificially inflating the price of taxi medallions and then left taxi drivers to suffocate under debt as those prices plummeted in the age of Uber.
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[Link] ‘Nine Eyes’? Bill Would Look at Adding Four Countries to Intel-Sharing Pact
Read: 4/11/2021 www.defenseone.com
The United States’ “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing pact is a World War II relic that needs updating to better keep tabs on China, the chairman of a key house subcommittee on intelligence told Defense One. Arizona Democrat Rep.
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[Link] Alabama Judge Loses Job After Saying George Floyd ‘Got What He Deserved’
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Randy Jinks, the Talladega County Probate Judge, was removed from his position Friday.
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[Link] Trump Invokes Presidential ‘Absolute Immunity’ in Electric Avenue Copyright Suit
Read: 1/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
Last month, lawyers acting for Donald Trump failed to have a court dismiss a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by musician Eddy Grant over the unlicensed use of his track Electric Avenue in a campaign video.
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[Link] Sure Looks Like Democrats Are Killing Paid Family Leave to Please Joe Manchin
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Democrats have been toiling to push through their own New Deal—a massive social spending bill covering climate, health, and child care—and secure President Joe Biden’s legacy.
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[Link] Even Republicans Can Be Convinced That Big Oil’s to Blame for Climate Change
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. What does it take to convince a Republican that oil and gas companies lied about the existence of climate change and are responsible for contributing to it?
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[Link] Former Adviser Says Trump Let Thousands Die of COVID for no Reason
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. One of former President Donald Trump’s key coronavirus advisers thinks his administration could have prevented up to 40 percent of U.S. coronavirus deaths with a better pandemic response.
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[Link] Lawyer Who Told Trump Pence Could Block the Election Says Riot Was FBI ‘Setup’
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
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[Link] Capital Rioter Begged to Be Released From ‘Cult-Like’ Patriot Wing of DC Jail
Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. An alleged Capitol rioter was released to the custody of his parents Tuesday after a judge in the case said he was surrounded by the “toxic environment” of the D.C. jail holding dozens of January 6 defendants.
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[Link] ‘History will not judge us kindly’: Facebook employees rip Zuckerberg in leaked messages
Read: 26/10/2021 nypost.com
Facebook employees say Mark Zuckerberg’s obsession with growth has overridden ethical concerns and allowed hate speech and incitements to violence to spread unchecked, internal messages leaked to media outlets show.
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[Link] ‘Unite the Right’ Organizers Are Facing a Court Case That Could Bankrupt Them
Read: 25/10/2021 www.vice.com
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia - Yellow U.S. Marshall tape cordoned off the walkways into the federal courthouse in downtown Charlottesville on Monday morning, which, for the next month will be the focal point of a civil case that could bankrupt a white supremacist movement.
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[Link] A Proud ‘Lady Trump’ Is Running For Nevada Governor
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Fiore is perhaps best known for her hardline gun rights advocacy. In December 2015, Fiore posted a family Christmas photo to Facebook showing her entire family holding guns—including her five-year-old grandson.
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[Link] Black Democratic Party Chair Says He Got Lynching Threat For Criticizing Trump
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Ross Wilburn says he received multiple threats, including one that threatened to lynch him, after he wrote an op-ed that criticized former President Donald Trump.
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[Link] Right-Wing Radio Host ‘Kept Hugging People’ to Give Himself COVID
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Right-wing radio host and YouTube personality Dennis Prager apparently really, really wanted to get COVID-19. Mission accomplished.
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[Link] Northern Territory chief minister and US senator Ted Cruz in Twitter spat over Covid vaccines
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Northern Territory chief minister, Michael Gunner, has hit back at US senator Ted Cruz who criticised the Northern Territory’s vaccine policy, telling the firebrand Texan conservative “you know nothing about us”.
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[Link] ‘The court of God will be waiting for him’: Iraqis react to Colin Powell’s death
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
For many Iraqis, Colin Powell was the face of the US invasion which caused an estimated 200,000 deaths, unleashing nearly two decades of domestic chaos and precipitating chaos throughout the region.
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[Link] Colin Powell’s UN speech: a decisive moment in undermining US credibility
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Colin Powell will be most remembered for the act he most regretted, his 2003 presentation to the UN security council laying out US evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, which turned out not to exist.
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[Link] Pete Buttigieg’s Parental Leave Is Driving Conservatives Mad
Read: 15/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Tucker Carlson took a shot at the first openly gay Cabinet secretary for taking parental leave after the birth of his children.
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[Link] Texas governor bans all vaccine mandates, including from private businesses
Read: 13/10/2021 arstechnica.com
Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order late Monday prohibiting all state entities, including private businesses, from requiring people to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.
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[Link] Ted Cruz Says Bitcoin Mining Can Fix Texas' Crumbling Electric Grid
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
Texas’ energy grid has problems. Those issues were laid bare this past winter when a storm put the state in a deep freeze, causing blackouts for millions and killing hundreds of people.
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[Link] MAGA QAnon's 2 Biggest Celebrities Are at War
Read: 11/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. And the spat is splitting their supporters down the middle.
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[Link] Trump Supporters Have Already Turned on the Cyber Ninjas
Read: 9/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Doug Logan, the CEO of Cyber Ninjas, the Florida-based company that conducted the bogus election ‘audit’ in Arizona over the last six months, says he won’t be conducting any more recounts—unless God tells him to.
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[Link] The GOP Plot to Steal Wisconsin Is Off to a Ridiculous Start
Read: 9/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. No one, apparently, has learned from the mistakes of Arizona and Cyber Ninjas. Particularly not Wisconsin Republicans.
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[Link] Rikers Island Inmate Calls Into Radio Show to Talk About How Bad It Is
Read: 1/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. “The only way you get a medical appointment is by laying on the floor, and they have to come get you in a stretcher.
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[Link] Bipartisan Police Reform Bill Is Officially Dead in Congress
Read: 23/9/2021 www.vice.com
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[Link] Missouri couple who pointed guns at protesters may have law licenses revoked
Read: 22/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
Mark and Patricia McCloskey, a Missouri couple who became famous for pointing guns at protesters marching for racial justice last summer, could have their law licenses revoked.
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[Link] Capitol attack committee issues sweeping requests for official records
Read: 26/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
The House select committee tasked with investigating the 6 January attacks on the Capitol has issued its first round of sweeping demands for records from multiple US government agencies.
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[Link] FCC Proposes Record Fine Against Pro-Trump Robocall Scam, But Will It Collect?
Read: 25/8/2021 www.vice.com
The FCC this week announced that partisan disinformation merchants Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman could face a record $5 million fine for illegal robocalls placed during the run up to the 2020 elections.
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[Link] A Sex Trafficking Investigation Didn't Stop Matt Gaetz From Getting Married
Read: 23/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The 39-year-old Florida congressman married Ginger Luckey in California, Luckey (who is now going by the name Ginger Luckey Gaetz) tweeted Saturday. Former Rand Paul aide Sergio Gor served as the officiant.
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[Link] Trump Booed at His Own Rally For Telling His Supporters to Get Vaccinated
Read: 23/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The reason? Trump told people to go get vaccinated.
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[Link] GOP Finally Backs Unemployment Benefits, But Only for the Unvaccinated
Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Wisconsin Republicans have been fighting for months to limit or eliminate unemployment benefits for their state in the face of the coronavirus. But they’ve found one group they want to help: the unvaccinated.
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[Link] ‘Florida Man’ Matt Gaetz Sure Is Spending a Lot of Time Away from Florida
Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Last month, Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz mocked people worried about the COVID-19 pandemic which is currently ravaging his home state by saying he had the “Florida variant, the freedom variant” of COVID-19.
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[Link] Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Not to Worry About COVID: ‘We Can’t Live Forever’
Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. At least 619,729 Americans, 21,219 Georgians, and 247 people in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s home county have died as a result of COVID-19 since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the New York Times.
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[Link] GOP Finally Backs Unemployment Benefits, But Only for the Unvaccinated
Read: 14/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Wisconsin Republicans have been fighting for months to limit or eliminate unemployment benefits for their state in the face of the coronavirus. But they’ve found one group they want to help: the unvaccinated.
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[Link] The Congresswoman Behind FOSTA Is Coming for OnlyFans
Read: 13/8/2021 www.vice.com
More than 100 members of Congress signed a letter demanding the DOJ investigate of child sexual abuse material on OnlyFans—which adult industry experts say are baseless.
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[Link] Ron DeSantis Is Pretending Not to Know Florida Needs Emergency Ventilators
Read: 11/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Things have gotten so bad that this week, multiple outlets have reported that the federal government is sending hundreds of ventilators to the state to help fight the surge. But Florida Gov.
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[Link] ‘What He Did to Me Was a Crime’: Cuomo Accuser Brittany Commisso Speaks Up
Read: 9/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Brittany Commisso, the woman who last week filed a criminal complaint against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for groping her, is going public and pushing back against the governor’s claim that he never touched anyone inappropriately.
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[Link] GOP Senate Candidate Says You Should Be Worried About ‘Anti-White Racism’
Read: 9/8/2021 www.vice.com
Billionaire tech mogul Peter Thiel’s favored candidate for an Arizona Senate seat went on a recent screed against “anti-white racism,” accusing liberal teachers of turning America’s students into self-hating automatons.
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[Link] The Supreme Court Needs to Be Cut Down to Size
Read: 8/8/2021 www.nytimes.com
Credit...Fred R. Conrad/The New York TimesOpinion ColumnistOn Tuesday, the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States sat for its third public meeting.
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[Link] In Nearly All Other Democracies, This Is Not Normal
Read: 8/8/2021 www.nytimes.com
Mr. Pildes has spent his career as a legal scholar analyzing the intersection of politics and law and how that affects our democracy.
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[Link] Top Republicans move to protect Trump from Capitol attack fallout
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Top Republicans in Congress are embarking on a new campaign of revisionism seven months after the attack on the Capitol, absolving Donald Trump of responsibility and blaming the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, for the 6 January insurrection perpetrated by a mob of Trump supporters.
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[Link] Nancy Pelosi’s Surprise Flip on Student Debt Cancellation Came After Urging From Billionaire Power Couple
Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com
The drive to persuade President Joe Biden to cancel student debt took a major hit last week when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stunned Congress with a surprise statement in opposition.
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[Link] Repealing the “Walking While Trans” Ban Is Part of the Struggle to Decriminalize Sex Work
Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com
After years of tireless organizing, advocacy, and struggle led by trans women of color, the state of New York has finally repealed the pernicious anti-loitering statute that was widely known as the law against “walking while trans.” On Monday, New York Gov.
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[Link] Wall Street Investors Press Corporate Landlords on Eviction Plan
Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com
In courthouses across the country this week, grief and anger over looming eviction orders turned to hope as the Biden administration shifted course.
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[Link] The Problem Isn’t Just Cuomo, It’s the System That Made Him
Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo should have resigned or been removed from his position months ago. This much is obvious. It should have been sufficient that the governor oversaw a cover-up of thousands of pandemic deaths in New York nursing homes — deaths for which he bears major responsibility.
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[Link] Inside the Falun Gong Disinformation Machine
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
On this episode of VICE News Reports, we tell the story of how the little-known movement became one of the most influential digital publishers of anti-China, pro-Trump propaganda.
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[Link] Cuomo Is Now Facing Potential Criminal Charges For Sexual Assault
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. A woman who accused New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of groping her has now filed a criminal complaint against him, a move that could ultimately land the embattled governor in handcuffs.
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[Link] Tucker Carlson Has Seen the Future, and It Is Fascist
Read: 5/8/2021 nymag.com
In 1919, the progressive journalist Lincoln Steffens visited the nascent Soviet Union and declared, “I have seen the future and it works.
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[Link] A Cop Wrongly Handcuffed a Black Mom and Kids. Now He’s Running for Sheriff.
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Almost a year after Aurora, Colorado, police officers wrongly handcuffed a Black mother and members of her young family in a parking lot, one of the cops involved has thrown his hat into the race for county sheriff of a nearby town.
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[Link] Republicans used to laud ‘personal responsibility’. Not with Covid
Read: 31/7/2021 www.theguardian.com
“It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions,” declared Ronald Reagan at the 1968 Republican National Convention.
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[Link] Laura Ingraham says Capitol police beaten by Trump mob have ‘nobody to blame but themselves’
Read: 30/7/2021 www.independent.co.uk
Fox News' Laura Ingraham attacked Capitol Police officers on her Wednesday night show. Following a speech about her perceived failures of Dr Anthony Fauci, she went on to discredit officers: “Fauci has no one to blame but himself, ditto for the Capitol police who testified on Wednesday”.
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[Link] MAGA World’s ‘Freedom Phone’ Actually Budget Chinese Phone
Read: 16/7/2021 www.thedailybeast.com
The pro-Trump internet went wild on Wednesday for the Freedom Phone, a $500 smartphone that comes stocked with conservative apps and promises to liberate anyone else who buys it from Silicon Valley censorship.
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[Link] MAGA Pastor Jackson Lahmeyer Discovers the Downside of QAnon
Read: 15/7/2021 www.rightwingwatch.org
MAGA pastor Jackson Lahmeyer launched a primary challenge to Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma earlier this year because he was outraged by Lankford’s failure to challenge the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory on Jan.
[Link] “Bad mergers” and noncompete clauses targeted in Biden executive order
Read: 14/7/2021 arstechnica.com
President Joe Biden announced his anticipated executive order today, and it’s a sweeping document that seeks to counter rising corporate consolidation and foster greater competition in everything from labor markets to mergers, banking, healthcare, device repairs, transportation, broadband, and mor
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[Link] Lauren Boebert rants against welfare at CPAC but oversees counties with highest state unemployment
Read: 14/7/2021 www.independent.co.uk
Colorado Republican Rep Lauren Boebert bombastically told the US federal government during the CPAC conference to “leave us the hell alone”.
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[Link] Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner distance themselves from the former President and his constant complaints
Read: 23/6/2021 www.cnn.com
With each passing day away from Washington, former President Donald Trump's grievances continue unabated. And those complaints appear to be driving away two of the people who were closest to him during his White House tenure: his daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
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[Link] In a Different Capitol Siege, Republicans in Oregon Call for Accountability
Read: 11/6/2021 www.nytimes.com
G.O.P. lawmakers in the state are calling for the resignation of a legislator who appears to have encouraged protesters to breach the State Capitol in December. A little more than two weeks before a mob of supporters of Donald J. Trump stormed the U.S.
[Link] Trump Has Reportedly Been Telling People He’s Going to Be President Again by August, Which Would Suggest He’s Planning a Coup (Or Has Fully Descended Into Madness)
Read: 3/6/2021 www.vanityfair.com
Is Donald Trump ever going to be president again? In theory, should he set aside the fact that he actually hated being president, and decide to run again in 2024, and should tens of millions of Americans lose their minds and cast their votes for a wannabe dictator who is probably at this moment rant
[Link] Trump closes his ‘beacon of freedom’ website a month after launching it
Read: 3/6/2021 www.theguardian.com
Donald Trump has discontinued the blog-type website he launched in a fanfare less than a month ago as “a beacon of freedom” and “a place to speak freely and safely”.
[Link] The fallacy of the colonial ‘right to defence’
Read: 17/5/2021 www.aljazeera.com
The violence convulsing the Middle East has produced heart-rending images and statistics.
[Link] Joe Biden feels political ground shift as Israel-Gaza conflict rages on
Read: 17/5/2021 www.theguardian.com
In his staunch defence of Israel, Joe Biden is sticking to a course set decades ago as a young senator, and so far he has not given ground on the issue to the progressive wing of his party or many Jewish Democrats urging a tougher line towards Benjamin Netanyahu.
[Link] Dog care, hair appointments and restaurant reservations: The odd jobs of State Dept. aides under Mike Pompeo.
Read: 18/4/2021 www.nytimes.com
By and Last year, when he was still secretary of state, Mike Pompeo dismissed accusations that he or his wife, Susan, had asked State Department staff to walk his dog or perform other personal tasks as “patently false” and “crazy stuff.
[Link] ‘Dumb son of a bitch’: Trump attacks McConnell in Republican donors speech
Read: 12/4/2021 www.theguardian.com
Donald Trump devoted part of a speech to Republican donors on Saturday night to insulting the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell. According to multiple reports of the $400,000-a-ticket, closed-press event, the former president called the Kentucky senator “a dumb son of a bitch”.
[Link] Mike Lindell says he hired investigators to find out why Fox News won’t book him
Read: 12/4/2021 www.theguardian.com
Mike Lindell, the formerly ubiquitous purveyor of both Donald Trump’s election lies and his own range of My Pillow bedding accoutrements, says he has hired private investigators to find out why he appears to have fallen out of favor with Fox News.
[Link] G.O.P. Group Warns of ‘Defector’ List if Donors Uncheck Recurring Box
Read: 9/4/2021 www.nytimes.com
The National Republican Congressional Committee says to donors who opt out of recurring monthly donations: “We will have to tell Trump you’re a DEFECTOR.”Former President Donald Trump spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Fla., in February.Credit...
[Link] ‘An international embarrassment’: Biden announces gun violence plan
Read: 9/4/2021 www.smh.com.au
Washington: Joe Biden has announced a series of policies aimed at curbing gun violence in the US, a phenomenon the President described as an “epidemic” and “international embarrassment“.
[Link] Twitter won’t let federal archivists host Trump’s tweets on Twitter
Read: 8/4/2021 arstechnica.com
The National Archives and Records Administration is a federal agency responsible for preserving historically significant federal records, including tweets from senior government officials.
[Link] Donald Trump uses new website to rewrite history of his presidency
Read: 7/4/2021 www.theguardian.com
Donald Trump has launched a new website celebrating his time as US president that includes a very selective retelling of the history of his time in office.
[Link] FBI facing allegation that its 2018 background check of Brett Kavanaugh was ‘fake’
Read: 26/3/2021 www.theguardian.com
The FBI is facing new scrutiny for its 2018 background check of Brett Kavanaugh, the supreme court justice, after a lawmaker suggested that the investigation may have been “fake”.
[Link] Matthew McConaughey 'seriously considering' run for Texas governor
Read: 17/3/2021 www.theguardian.com
Matthew McConaughey has announced he is “seriously considering” a run for Texas governor, a year before the state election. The actor revealed his intention on a recent episode of Crime Stoppers of Houston’s The Balanced Voice podcast on Wednesday.
[Link] Pentagon, stumped by extremism in ranks, orders stand-down in next 60 days
Read: 7/2/2021 www.reuters.com
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military on Wednesday acknowledged it was unsure about how to address white nationalism and other extremism in its ranks, and announced plans for military-wide stand-downs pausing regular activity at some point in the next 60 days to tackle the issue.
[Link] President Obama: Libya aftermath 'worst mistake' of presidency
Read: 29/1/2021 www.bbc.com
US President Barack Obama has said failing to prepare for the aftermath of the ousting of Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi was the worst mistake of his presidency. Mr Obama was answering a series of questions on the highs and lows of his time in office on Fox News.
[Link] Marjorie Taylor Greene tried to force Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib to retake their oaths on a Bible in a resurfaced video
Read: 28/1/2021 www.independent.co.uk
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a QAnon-supporting Republican who is known for pushing conspiracy theories and making racists comments, previously tried to force Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib to retake their congressional oaths on the Bible.
[Link] Marjorie Taylor Greene Believes in Frazzledrip, QAnon’s Wildest Conspiracy Theory
Read: 28/1/2021 www.vice.com
The average QAnon believer likely has no idea what “frazzledrip” is. But Marjorie Taylor Greene, the newly minted representative from Georgia who recently filed impeachment papers against President Joe Biden, is no average QAnon follower.
[Link] Biden plans to limit private prisons and transfer of military equipment to police
Read: 27/1/2021 www.reuters.com
By Sarah N. Lynch, Trevor Hunnicutt
[Link] A Michigan woman asked county officials to denounce the Proud Boys. One commissioner flashed a rifle instead.
Read: 24/1/2021 www.washingtonpost.com
Keli MacIntosh intended to speak before the Grand Traverse County Board of Commissioners this week with a straightforward demand: Would the board openly denounce the Proud Boys after the Jan. 6 riots on the U.S. Capitol?